Dr. Sherwin Bryant
Assistant Professor of African American Studies and History Address: African American Studies Department 2-320 Kresge Hall 1880 S. Campus Dr. Evanston, IL 60208-2209 Phone:(847) 491-3756 Email: s-bryant@northwestern.edu

Courses:

None at this time, please check back next quarter.

Degree:

Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2005

M.A. The Ohio State University, History, 1998

B.A. North Carolina Central University, Cum Laude, History and Education, 1995

Current Research:

Sherwin K. Bryant specializes in colonial Latin American history with a particular emphasis upon slavery and emancipation, race and difference, free black life in the Americas, and the modern African Diaspora. His dissertation, “Slavery and the Context of Ethnogenesis: Africans, Afro-Creoles, and the Realities of Bondage in the Kingdom of Quito, 1600-1800,” looked comparatively at the daily lives of slave laborers forced to work in two of the three principal slaveholding regions of the colony—the district of Popayán and Quito City. Highlighting the ethnic diversity that characterized the kingdom’s ethnic African population, this work explored Quito’s unique context for African and Afro-Creole identity formation. Currently, Mr. Bryant is co-editing with Ben Vinson and Rachel O’Toole an anthology addressing the African Diaspora to Latin America tentatively entitled, Expanding the Diaspora: Africans in Colonial Latin America. In addition to revising his dissertation for publication, he is beginning work on a new project—a history of free black life in the colonial Andean town of Cuenca (Ecuador).

Recent Awards:

2003-2004
Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Fellowship, University of Notre Dame

2002-2003
Kenyon College Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship

2001-2002
Ford Minority Dissertation Fellowship

2000-2001
Fulbright Fellowship (IIE)--pre-dissertation research in Ecuador

Recent Publications:

"Finding Gold, Forming Slavery: The Creation of a Classical Slave Society, Popayán, 1600-1800,” The Americas, (Forthcoming 2006).

"Enslaved Rebels, Fugitives, and Litigants: The Resistance Continuum in Colonial Quito," Colonial Latin American Review, 13:1 (June 2004): 7-46.